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"I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could."
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"I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here."
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"Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place."
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"Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble."
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"When birds burp, it must taste like bugs."
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"Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at."
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"Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them."
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"Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best."
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"To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds."
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"When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first."
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"I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could."
Birds
"To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art."
Art
"I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens."
Body
"On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life."
Life
"I waged war against my feelings."
War
"But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns."
Birds
"As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature."
Nature
"Duruing all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks."
Nature
"I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children."
Life
"Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased."
Mother
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